Last night I went viral on Twitter.
I made a tweet responding to Bryan Johnson, the famous biohacker, who announced that he would be taking 5 grams of magic mushrooms and documenting the entire trip and experience.
And in my tweet, I explained why I don’t do psychedelics.
The crux of my argument was that taking psychologically altering substances like magic mushrooms can permanently (and does permanently) change the biochemistry and the neurochemistry of your brain.
Now for some, especially if you just do it one time, it’s subtle. And if it opens the channels & changes ur perspective once maybe its a good thing. But the longer-term effects are potentially pretty damaging.
And I know that because I’ve seen it with my own eyes in people who’ve had seriously negative effects from taking hallucinogens in general. Like basically they turn into tweakers. Or just go totally off the rails into schizophrenia.
That was part 1 of the argument.
The second part of the argument (and perhaps why it went so viral) is in that I led off by saying that I don’t take hallucinogens because I already have spiritually open channels.
People calling me a narcissist for this part lol.
What hallucinogens do is basically open up your chakra centers, your energy centers in your body, so that you experience the Godflow—which is to say, to experience every energetic sensation of reality and all existence in a moment in your human body. That’s not every experience, but thats the highest degree. Lower dose may open some of the channels for new energy to flow.
And I explained that my channels opened after 2014 when I smoked a pretty large amount of weed in a friend’s attic.
And of course I was super young. I was a pretty small kid too. I was maybe 120 pounds, 5 foot 2, smoked a bunch of weed, and my body system developed like just a crazy reaction to it.
And over the next few years, I was extremely anxious and nervous all the time.
And I thought it was just anxiety. And obviously doctors wanted to put me on medication for it.
But the truth was that I had just taken a substance that brought in a high level of energy into my body that my body vessel wasn’t ready for.
And that’s basically the same thing that psychedelics like magic mushrooms will do.
So from then on, I was pretty anxious. But then at 18, I learned meditation.
I learned how to calibrate the energy in my body.
And I’ve been meditating daily for the past decade.
And more recently, as I’ve gotten into Yogananda stuff, I’ve gotten even more into meditation.
And I’m noticing the extremely subtle energy currents and how fragile the body system is and how powerful the subtle energy currents are.
And so I know for a fact that when you open up the body to mushrooms when the body is energetically not ready to receive the Godflow, you can do some damage.
And not only that, magic mushrooms are kind of like a telephone into the spirit realm.
And so in the spirit realm, there’s obviously a lot of light, luminous energy. And there’s a lot of dark, dangerous energy.
And so if you’re just taking magic mushrooms just for the hell of it, you can go in there and you can have strange spiritual entities kind of latch onto you (or whatever you want to call it) just dark energy just latch on to you and your psyche.
Or you can just kind of lose part of your psyche in that realm and not ever come back.
Or you can literally develop schizophrenia.
So my main point and suggestion in this email—and further elaboration—is that if you want to experience the divine, you can do so, but nothing comes unearned.
Taking magic mushrooms to phone up God is kind of like taking steroids if you want to grow big muscles.
There’s always a long-term cost. You don’t get anything unearned in life.
If you take steroids to grow muscles, you’re gonna deplete your heart health.
So if you take magic mushrooms, you’re gonna potentially damage the very receptors that, in the normal state of meditation, allow you to hear the calling of the divine flows of peace.
Taking shrooms is like taking a tiny electrical node and blasting it with millions of watts of electricity. It just doesn’t do well for that tiny electrical node long-term.
So my position is: if you want to experience the divine, you have to earn it.
You have to actually take care of the body. Live more of a sinless life.
“Sin,” all that means by the way, is just living off the mark.
So you know, for example, not doing things like take drugs, not doing things like steal, lie, cheat.
The reason that cheating—on tests, on exams, on partners—or stealing from stores or from a business partner—the reason these things are considered sin and off the mark is because they actually give you a guilty conscience.
And if you try to meditate (the form of meditation that is to get close to the ultimate divine sense of peace) the sensors, the receptors in your brain are totally dulled because you’ve kind of ruined them by cheating, lying, stealing.
And the doors and the gates of heaven, of that sacred peace that you want to experience 24/7, they just get locked up.
So this stuff is very easy to verify in your own existence.
This is the path that I’ve walked.
If you disagree, go write something on that Twitter thread and blow it up even more haha.
And that’s all. That’s my message for today.
Hope you enjoyed this.
I’ll see you tomorrow.
P.S. Today I am driving down to San Diego to see Sovereign Brah and Colin Yurcisin, two of my friends. They’re super into Jesus and stuff so we’re probably gonna talk about that.
I’m sure it’s gonna be a really good podcast.
You’d probably recognize Sovereign Brah if you saw him because he blew up a lot on the Whatever podcast a couple years ago and he’s a pretty big influencer on Twitter.
So yeah, looking forward to that.
Talk soon.
— Arlin
